Interviews

An Interview With: ALLEN DOYLE

Q.  Striking the ball well today?

ALLEN DOYLE:  Not too bad.  I hit it pretty good today.  We didn't get off to a very good start this morning, on the restart.  And then we started on 10, and I bogeyed 11.  Bogeyed three of the first four holes we started.  I brought it back okay.

Q.  The ground is so soft, how is the course playing?

ALLEN DOYLE:  It's playing -- for someone like me who's a low ball hitter, it's playing a little on the hard side.  I hit a good 5-wood into, say a hole like 15, and you know with those false fronts, it gets three or four paces on the green, and I'm chipping from 15 feet off the green.

6, I hit a good 4-iron in there, it hits two paces short of the hole -- I mean short of the green, and one of those stupid false fronts, and it goes a foot.  And I've got a tough little chip.  Stuff like that keeps you working, where you think when the ball hits you're going to have a pretty good shot.  And now you've got some pretty good chips.  I hit some pretty good shots that I was -- that I thought I had good birdie putts on that I'm chipping on.

Q.  Generally speaking, I heard you talking about being a low ball hitter, ordinarily this wouldn't seem like it's a fit for this golf course.  Is that what you meant and how do you like what you've done so far and how you're projecting into the weekend?

ALLEN DOYLE:  I like what I've done, because of what everybody else has done.  But as I look back to some of the shots, here you've got a 220 yard par-3 on 15 with a false front.  I hit a 5-wood about four paces on the green, it rolls 20 feet back off the green.  I should be putting something for birdie.  I'm making a hard scramble for par.

On those front type of pins you don't want to be carrying them close to pin-high and I'm gone.  So you've got to keep in there and keep scrapping, and that's what I tried to do.  I don't think they realize the pace of play yesterday was just absolutely atrocious.  There were guys that teed off after us on the back 9 that finished.  But I've got to come back out and play 17 and 18, and go bogey, bogey.  And you couldn't find someone here that gave a damn if I had someone to complain to, which I won't, because it ain't going to do any good.  So you've just got to keep scrapping.

Q.  Does that play hard on your mentally, that you had to come out and play?

ALLEN DOYLE:  Well, you know, not really, because you've got to play the hand that's dealt to you.  So that's what we try to do.

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